This song is hardly ever played at sessions anymore, Why not ? It has a beautiful air
and some lovely sentiments, I still sing it and it always goes down well,The words of this song were changed
by Bing Chrosby, well just one word ''Strangers'' which was originally written as ''English'' Galway Bay sheet music The youtube video is of Brian Flynn guitar teacher who strives to keep the old songs alive. Also recorded
by Daniel O'Donnell.

When she's drinkin' 16 pints down at Paddy Murphy's,and
the barman says,"I think it's time to go."Well she doesn't seem to answer him in Gaelic,but a language that the clergy
does not know.

When she drinks her 16 pints of Pabst Blue Ribbon,you know she can't walk home without a sway.If
the sea was beer instead of salty water,I'm sure she'd live and die in Galway Bay.

On her back there is tatooed
the map of Ireland,and when she takes her bath on Saturday,she rubs that Sunlight soap down around by Claddagh,just
to watch the suds roll down by Galway Bay.

Galway Bay Sheet Music

Arthur Colahan was born in Galway in 1885. He took up medicine and graduated from Queen's College, Galway in 1913. When
World War broke out he enlisted in the British Army's Medical Corps and served in India. After the war, he settled in Leicester,
where he worked as a psychiatrist in the police and prison services. His hobby was music and he wrote songs such as Cade Ring,
Macushla Mine and the beautiful Galway Bay. He often spent his holidays in his beloved County Galway, and liked nothing better
than an evening at the piano while his brothers and sisters sang Irish songs, including his own that he had written in Leicester.
Galway Bay, which was written in memory of one of his brothers who drowned in the Bay, is the song of the grief of an exile
and had he lived we're sure he would have objected to the version made famous by Bing Crosby, who altered the word 'English'
to 'strangers.' Dr. Colahan died at his Leicester home on 9 September 1952 and his remains were removed to Galway for burial
in the family grave. Even today there is still no mention of his name on the Celtic Cross that marks the grave of the man
of who it was said "money didn't interest him, Glory didn't interest him. He was very gentle and very humble." This entry
thanks to Max Wade-Matthews and was taken from his CD: "A Walk Through Leicester." "Galway Bay," published in 1947, was second
in the USA in "The Lucky Strike Cigarettes Hit Parade Radio Show - 1935 to 1955" charts for a total of 12 weeks in 1949.